An address to ... earl Stanhope, on ... a survey of Chevening park made ... in 1817

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Página 9 - It is not the manner of the Romans to deliver any man to die, before that he which is accused have the accusers face to face, and have licence to answer for himself concerning the crime laid against him.
Página 64 - What hast thou done unto me? I took thee to curse mine enemies, and behold, thou hast blessed them altogether.
Página 99 - Equity is a Roguish thing, for Law we have a measure, know what to trust to, Equity is according to the Conscience of him that is Chancellor, and as that is larger or narrower, so is Equity. 'Tis all one as if they should make the Standard for the measure, we call [a Foot] a Chancellor's Foot, what an uncertain Measure would this be?
Página 98 - Equity is a roguish thing ; for law we have a measure, know what to trust to ; equity is according to the conscience of him that is Chancellor, and as that is larger or narrower, so is equity. 'Tis all one as if they should make the standard for the measure we call a foot...
Página 81 - The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.
Página 129 - That grate the soul of harmony. Each pedant sage unlocks his store Of mystic, dark, discordant lore; And points, with tottering hand, the ways That lead me to the thorny maze.
Página 44 - The truth is, that the mind of man desireth evermore to know the truth according to the most infallible certainty which the nature of things can yield. The greatest assurance generally with all men is that which we have by plain aspect and intuitive beholding.
Página 125 - ... lose what is their own, and let the debtors gain what in justice is another's ; for nothing so cements and holds together in union all the parts of a society, as faith or credit ; which can never be kept up, unless men are under some force and necessity of honestly paying what they owe to one another.
Página 21 - I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you ? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren ? 6 But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers.
Página 61 - Observing our faults in others is sometimes improper for our case : but the best receipt, best, I say, to work, and best to take, is the admonition of a friend. It is a strange thing to behold what gross errors and extreme absurdities many...

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